Frank Lockwood (politician)

Sir Frank Lockwood, QC (15 July 1846 – 18 December 1897) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons as MP for City of York from 1885 to 1897.

[4] Lockwood made two unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament, the one at King's Lynn at the 1880 general election,[5] the other at York at by-election in 1883.

Edward Carson, who had successfully defended the Marquess of Queensbury against Wilde's misguided criminal libel, approached Frank Lockwood and asked "Can we not let up on the fellow now?".

In 1896 Lockwood accompanied Lord Chief Justice Russell and barrister Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe to the United States to attend the nineteenth meeting of the American Bar Association as specially invited representatives of the English bar.

Lockwood also had a skill at drawing, which he used to amuse himself and his friends, by making caricatures in pen and ink, and sketches of humorous incidents, real or imaginary, relating to the topic nearest at hand.

His wife was the sister of fellow MP George Salis-Schwabe and the daughter of the educationalist Julia Schwabe.

"York". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1887.